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Second Moment Convergence Rates for Uniform Empirical Processes
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2010, Article number: 972324 (2010)
Abstract
Let be a sequence of independent and identically distributed -distributed random variables. Define the uniform empirical process as , . In this paper, we get the exact convergence rates of weighted infinite series of .
1. Introduction and Main Results
Let be a sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables with zero mean. Set for , and . Hsu and Robbins [1] introduced the concept of complete convergence. They showed that
if and . The converse part was proved by the study of Erdös in [2]. Obviously, the sum in (1.1) tends to infinity as . Many authors studied the exact rates in terms of (cf. [3–5]). Chow [6] studied the complete convergence of , . Recently, Liu and Lin [7] introduced a new kind of complete moment convergence which is interesting, and got the precise rate of it as follows.
Theorem A.
Suppose that is a sequence of i.i.d. random variables, then
holds, if and only if , , and .
Other than partial sums, many authors investigated precise rates in some different cases, such as U-statistics (cf. [8, 9]) and self-normalized sums (cf. [10, 11]). Zhang and Yang [12] extended the precise asymptotic results to the uniform empirical process. We suppose is the sample of random variables and is the empirical distribution function of it. Denote the uniform empirical process by , , and the norm of a function on by . Let , be the Brownian bridge. We present one result of Zhang and Yang [12] as follows.
Theorem B.
For any , one has
Inspired by the above conclusions, we consider second moment convergence rates for the uniform empirical process in the law of iterated logarithm and the law of the logarithm. Throughout this paper, let denote a positive constant whose values can be different from one place to another. will denote the largest integer . The following two theorems are our main results.
Theorem 1.1.
For , one has
Theorem 1.2.
For , one has
Remark 1.3.
It is well known that , (see Csörgő and Révész [13, page 43]). Therefore, by Fubini's theorem we have
Consequently, explicit results of (1.4) and (1.5) can be calculated further.
2. The Proofs
In order to prove Theorem 1.1, we present several propositions first.
Proposition 2.1.
For , , one has
Proof.
We calculate that
Proposition 2.2.
For , one has
Proof.
Following [4], set , where . Write
It is wellknown that (see Csörgő and Révész [13, page 17]). By continuous mapping theorem, we have . As a result, it follows that
Using the Toeplitz's lemma (see Stout [14, pages 120-121]), we can get . For , it is obvious that
Notice that , for a small . Via the similar argument in [4] we have
From Kiefer and Wolfowitz [15], we have
Therefore,
From (2.6), (2.7), and (2.9), we get . Proposition 2.2 has been proved.
Proposition 2.3.
For , one has
Proof.
The calculation here is analogous to (2.1), so it is omitted here.
Proposition 2.4.
For , one has
Proof.
Like [4] and Proposition 2.2, we divide the summation into two parts,
First, consider ,
Since means , it follows
By Lemma in Zhang and Yang [12], we have . For , it is easy to get
In the same way, by the inequality , we can get
Put the three parts together, we get that uniformly in as . Using Toeplitz's lemma again, we have
In the sequel, we verify . It is easy to see that
We estimate first, by noticing and (2.8), it follows
Therefore, we get . So far, we only need to prove . Use the inequality again and follow the proof of , we can get this result. The proof of the proposition is completed now.
Proof of Theorem 1.1.
According to Fubini's theorem, it is easy to get
for . Therefore, we have
From Proposition 2.1– 2.4, we have
Proof of Theorem 1.2.
From (2.19), we have
Via the similar argument in Proposition 2.1 and 2.2,
Also, by the analogous proof of Proposition 2.3 and 2.4,
Combine (2.22), (2.23), and (2.24)together, we get the result of Theorem 1.2.
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This work was supported by NSFC (No. 10771192) and ZJNSF (No. J20091364).
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Chen, YY., Zhang, LX. Second Moment Convergence Rates for Uniform Empirical Processes. J Inequal Appl 2010, 972324 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/972324
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